Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Amulet of Charming

Amulet of Charming
Wondrous Item, Uncommon (requires attunement)
Aura: Minor Enchantment

Anyone who views the wearer of this amulet is inclined to view them favorably. While wearing this amulet, you have advantage the first time you make a Charisma (Persuasion) check while interacting with a creature. Once you use this property, it can’t be used again on the same creature for 24 hours.




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Monday, February 27, 2023

Amulet of Cheetah Speed

Amulet of Cheetah Speed
Wondrous Item, Uncommon (requires attunement)
Aura: Minor Transmutation

This ordinary silver amulet is engraved with the silhouette of a long-legged cat on one side. While wearing the amulet, your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield.

Burst of Speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you have used this property, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.




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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Amulet of Caterpillar Control

Amulet of Caterpillar Control
Wondrous Item, Common
Aura: Faint Enchantment

While wearing this amulet, you can sense the presence of any common caterpillar within 300 feet of you. In addition, you can mentally control the actions of up to two dozen common caterpillars with an Intelligence score of 3 or less.




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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Cartographer's Amulet

Cartographer’s Amulet
Wondrous Item, Rare (requires attunement)
Aura: Moderate Divination

This amulet is carved from a large, flawless jacinth and cut into a lens-shaped disc with a platinum setting and chain. The amulet has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. Holding the amulet in your hand and speaking a command word, you can direct it to  display an illusory scale map of your surroundings, with a glowing rune indicating the direction of true North. The area displayed by the illusory map shows how the area would look with normal vision in daylight. When you use this feature, you can indicate whether the map is a small or large area. The illusory map lasts for 1 hour, or until you dismiss it as an action.

A small area shows a detailed map of everything within a 60 foot radius of where the amulet was activated. Everything, including passages, stairways, doors, as well as any objects are displayed in the exact positions they were located when the command word was spoken. The amulet does not show creatures, nor does it reveal traps or secret doors (though a passage with no doors leading to it might imply a secret door somewhere). 

A large area shows a general map of everything within a 10-mile radius of where the amulet was activated. The map shows large geographical features, such as rivers, bridges and hills, as well as buildings. The map does not show any creatures or objects smaller than a house.




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Monday, February 20, 2023

Amulet of the Cairn Hills

Amulet of the Cairn Hills
Wondrous Item, Rare (requires attunement)
Aura: Moderate Abjuration

A favorite among grave robbers, this amulet provides some protection against attacks from powerful undead. The amulet has thirteen charges. Whenever you would take necrotic damage while wearing the amulet, you may use your reaction and expend one charge from the amulet to gain resistance to necrotic damage until the end of your next turn, including against the triggering attack.

In addition, if you would have one of your ability scores or hit point maximum reduced by a spell or other magical effect, you may use your reaction and expend two charges from the amulet to negate that reduction.

Once you expend the last charge, the amulet crumbles into dust.




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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Amulet of the Beast (Ivory)

Amulet of the Beast (Ivory)
Wondrous Item, Very Rare (requires attunement)
Aura: Strong Transmutation

An Amulet of the Beast shows the image of a wild, wolfish beast bonded in chains. Though it is clearly magical, the identify spell does not reveal any properties, which are apparent only when a creature becomes attuned to the amulet.

Curse. Once a creature has attuned to this amulet, they are afflicted with a specific form of the Curse of Lycanthrope. The kind of lycanthrope is determined when the amulet is first created and cannot be changed. Though any kind of lycanthrope can be chosen, werewolf is by far the most common choice for an Ivory Amulet of the Beast.




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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Amulet of the Beast (Silver)

Amulet of the Beast (Silver)
Wondrous Item, Rare
Aura: Moderate Abjuration

An Amulet of the Beast shows the image of a wild, wolfish beast bonded in chains. On any creature other than a lycanthrope, the amulet does nothing. So long as a lycanthrope is wearing the amulet, their curse is suppressed. Upon initially donning the amulet, they instantly revert to their original form and cannot change forms until the amulet is removed.




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